Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> and then the best:
> - installs with: "curl http://random_site/install_script | sudo bash"
Owww, my eyes! Please, make it stop.
Any software I see which recommends that idiom in their
instructions is immediately on the "never install this
crapware under any circumstances.
On 12/17/20 6:58 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
Yes... and how the malicious bits were delivered thru the update
mechanism...a nice reminder for us on how careful we need to be when
adding 3rd-party repos be it yum repos, flatpak repos, container repos
and so on.
True.
Even a single gpgcheck=0 is a
On Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:08:54 AM EST Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I read that there has been a major security hack of at least two
> companies, FireEye and SolarWinds, which supply security software
> to the US Government and to major corporations. (see:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/1
On 12/17/20 1:41 PM, stan via users wrote:
> The deeper issue is that this illustrates how easy it is for skilled
> programmers to insert malicious code into software so that it does
> nefarious things while not being detected. That certainly affects
> Fedora because it affects any system using co
On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 07:08:54 -0800
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I read that there has been a major security hack of at least two
> companies, FireEye and SolarWinds, which supply security software to
> the US Government and to major corporations.
> (see:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinio
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 07:08:54AM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I read that there has been a major security hack of at least two
> companies, FireEye and SolarWinds, which supply security software to
> the US Government and to major corporations.
> (see:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/
I read that there has been a major security hack of at least two
companies, FireEye and SolarWinds, which supply security software to
the US Government and to major corporations.
(see:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/fireeye-solarwinds-russia-hack.html
). Does this have any effect o
